Improvement in hair-puffing pins



ANNIS HURD.

HAIR PUFFING PIN. No.18-1,847. "Patented Sept.5,1876.

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UNITED STATES PATENT QFFIGE.

AN NIS HURD, OF WATERLOO, IOWA.

IMPROVEMENT IN HAlR-PUFFING PINS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 181,847, datedSeptember 5, 1876; application filed August 7, 1876.

To all whom it may concern Be it known thatI, Mrs. ANNIS HURD, ofWaterloo, Black Hawk county, Iowa, have invented a new and ImprovedBuffing-Pin, of which the following is a specification:

Figures 1 and 2 represent side views of my improved puffing or curlingpin, and Fig. 2 is an end view of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

Myinvention relates to an improved pin for putting or curling the hairwith great facility, the pin being so arranged .that a common hair pinmay be readily passed through to adjust the puli' in any suitable place.

The invention consists of a puffing-pin with clasping spring-legs andconnecting springcoil, the sections of which are arranged slanting toeach other for passing a hair-pin readily through either coil-section.

In the drawing, A represents a pufiing or curling pin, with straightlegs B, of which one has an end hook, at, to clasp the other leg. Thelegs B are connected at the opposite end or head by a bent spring-coil,O, which is so ar ranged that its coil-sections form an angle ofinclination or slant to each other and to the legs, as shown in Fig. 3.

This peculiar shape of the coil or head of the pin admits the readypassage of a hair-pin through either coil-section, for adjusting thepuff or curl withoutlproducing the flying open of the spring-legs, asthey are not acted upon by the spring, as in common spring-pins.

The puffing-pin is used in connection with a suitably-groovedcurling-stick, around which the hair is rolled, the straight leg of thepin being then passed down below the hair along one of the grooves, andclasped by the other leg.

The stick isthen removed and the hair held close to the head in the formof a puff, which is adjusted by a common hair pin passed through thehead of the pin, as required.

Having thus described my invention, Iclaim as new and desire to secureby LettersPatent A puffing or curling pin composed of clasping springlegs, connected at the head by a spring-coil Whose sections are arrangedat an inclination to each other and to the legs, substantially asspecified.

ANNIS HURD.

Witnesses LEWIS LIcH'rY, E. T. Oowm.

